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Timothy Enright, Cardrona.—We have looked up the terms of the Naturalization Acts of the United States from 1795 to the present time, and have found no trace of any provision requiring a would-be subject to take an oath against England. The present Act requires that an alien desiring to be naturalized must take an oath renouncing allegiance to every foreign power, including that of which he was before a subject, but no country is specially and definitely named. In 1784 the Legislature disfranchised all who would not take an oath that they had not aided the enemy (i.e. England), but presumably that is not the kind of oath you are referring to.
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New Zealand Tablet, 15 July 1915, Page 35
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115ANSWER TO CORRESPONDENT New Zealand Tablet, 15 July 1915, Page 35
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